Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTime may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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